Technology Development Program Software Engineering Associate – 2025

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

 

What is it like to work in Technology at Optum:

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet – technology and health care – with a culture of performance, collaboration, and opportunity and this is what you get: leading-edge solutions that improve the lives of millions. At Optum, our approach to technology isn’t about designing another app to fix health care. It’s about connecting patients to their physician and connecting a disconnected health system so that it works better for the people it was created to serve. 

 

Our global technology team consists of more than 40,000 innovators from around the world passionate    about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care system through modern and innovative technologies, AI, comprehensive clinical expertise, and extensive experience in improving operational and clinical performance.

 

As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.

 

Optum’s Technology Development Program:

The Technology Development Program (TDP) at Optum includes a 4-week bootcamp followed by a 12-month development program which includes two 6-month rotation and Grade Placement at the end. As a TDP Associate, you’ll gain invaluable experience in a variety of domains, as well as mentoring from technology leaders, networking across the technology organization and collaboration opportunities. The program creates a cohort structure that provides a more personalized employment experience in turn creating community and increasing engagement beyond that of a traditional hire.

 

Key Information Regarding Software Engineering:

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products, and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

 

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations, and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

 

TDP will be offering the following start date and location combinations for 2025:

 

Date of Joining: July 29, 2025

Office Locations:

• Eden Prairie, MN
• Boston, MA
• Hartford, CT
• Basking Ridge, NJ

The first 4 weeks on the job, the TDP Associate will participate in an orientation and onboarding bootcamp which requires you to be in office for the duration. Upon completion of the bootcamp, the TDP Associate will work in a hybrid model. This requires the TDP Associate to be in office 60% of the time, on average, at the site they were hired.

 

Full time telecommuting is not available for this position. 

 

Sponsorship is not available for this position

 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Science, IT & other technology related fields, or 2-year technical college
• Currently in final year of obtaining a bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college/university, or obtained degree within the last 24 months, in majors stated above
• Proficient in one or more coding languages (Example: Python, Java, C, SQL, .NET)
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization. F-1 visa holders with Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Optional Practical Training (OPT) who will require visa sponsorship, TN visa holders, current H-1B visa holders, and/or those requiring green card sponsorship will not be considered

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Involvement in any additional technical activities (Robotics, Comp. Science/Tech clubs, Tech or Engineering side projects, GitHub, etc.) and/or tech related employment experience
• Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) knowledge/experience
• Experience with software engineering tools such as source code control systems (i.e. GIT, GitHub), IDE, Continuous Delivery and deployment pipeline, etc.
• Understanding of Agile Frameworks, methodologies, roles, and tools (Kanban, Scrum, SaFE, LeSS, etc)

 

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.   

 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.